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This is great news. The tar sands are a unique example of hydrocarbons formed naturally within the earth seeping upward, making a real mess out of the environment but at least allowing this valuable and efficient form of energy to be accessible. Cleaning the tar from the sands and transporting it contained in a steel pipe to where it can be utilized to enhance our lives has got to be one of the great environmental cleanup achievements of our time.

And WHEN the highly abrasive and highly corrosive, chemically diluted (to thin it enough to flow in a pipeline at all) sludge, under twice the pressure needed to pump normal crude (again to make it flow at all) pours through a break into the Ogallala Aquifer (see links) it will again be back into the sands, (incidentally, the main natural freshwater sand filter recharging the Ogallala) so to speak, but only this time being forever irretrievable, except through farm and city water systems mixed with the diminishing water levels left in this underground Lake Ontario.

Tar Sands is NOT the solution. It will destroy the nature around affecting species living in the area, pollute our water, emmit tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere....Please visit our FB page at www.facebook.com/climateaction to follow the environmental debate. We hope your contribution to help building a big community.Thanks

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